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SAINT MARY'S COUNTY.

sate the
clerk there-
for.
Dockets to
be bound
and pre-
served.

pensation as he is entitled to, for the like services, to be paid
out of any unappropriated money in the treasury.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the clerk of Saint Mary's
county court be, and he is hereby required to have all the
dockets now remaining in his office, bound in good substantial
leather covers, in such manner as he may think proper, for the
better preservation of the only evidence now in Saint Mary's
county court, of the judicial proceedings of said court; and

Levy

therefor.

that the levy court of the county aforesaid, levy on the assessa-
ble property of said county, such sum as may be necessary to
defray the expenses thereof.

AN ACT to authorize the Register of Wills of Saint Mary's County, to
record certain Papers destroyed by Fire, and for oiher purposes. — 1831,
ch. 177.

Authority
again to
record.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any person or persons, having any original will or wills,
or any other instrument of writing, or any attested copy of a
will or wills or other instrument of writing, which shall ap-
pear to have been heretofore recorded in the office of the regis-
ter of wills, of Saint Mary's county, and the record thereof
has been destroyed, may, and is hereby authorized to have the
same recorded again, and the register of wills of the said county,
is hereby required upon application, and at the cost and charge
of the party or parties interested, to record the same, together
with the endorsement of the former enrolment, on the back of
the said will or wills, or other instrument of writing, in a well
bound book, in folio, for that purpose, and the said register

Books
therefor.
Endorse-
ment.

shall on the back of the said will or wills, or other instrument
of writing, make an endorsement of such second enrolment, and
also the folio of the book in which the same shall be enrolled.

Record
made valid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the will or wills, or other
instrument of writing, so as aforesaid recorded, shall have the
same effect and operation in law, to all intents and purposes, as
if the records in which the said will or wills, or other instru-
ment of writing were heretofore recorded, or original papers
had never been destroyed.

Copy of
receipt, se-
quittance,
&c, made
valid, al-
though not
recorded.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a copy of any receipt,
acquittance, release or final discharge, from any heir, repre-
sentative, or legatee of full age, or other person authorized to
execute the same, to any guardian, executor, executrix, ad-
ministrator or administratrix, which has been recorded in the
register of wills' office, in Saint Mary 's county, if the same shall
appear to have been acknowledged as is required by the act,
entitled, an act to make the final discharge of executors, ad-
ministrators and guardians, matter of record, and the original
of which has been destroyed, shall be admitted as evidence to